Existence and nonexistence of global solutions for \(u_ t = \Delta u + a(x)u^ p\) in \(\mathbb{R}^ d\) (Q678039)

The paper deals with the nonnegative solutions to the Cauchy problem \[ \leqno{(*)}\qquad u_{t} \Delta u+a(x)u^{p},\quad x\in {\mathbb{R}}^{d},\;t>0,\;p>1,\quad u(x,0)=u_{0}(x)\geq 0,\quad u\not\equiv 0, \] where \(a(x)\in C^{\alpha}({\mathbb{R}}^{d}),\) \(a(x)\geq 0,\) \(a(x)\not\equiv 0,\) and \(a(x)\) is of order \(|x|^{m}\) for \(m\in (-2,\infty),\) or \(a(x)\leq C|x|^{-2}.\) Extending the classical result of \textit{H. Fujita} [J. Fac. Sci., Univ. Tokyo, Sect. I 13, 109-124 (1966; Zbl 0163.34002)] and more recent results of \textit{C. Bandle} and \textit{H. A. Levine} [Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 316, No. 2, 595-622 (1989; Zbl 0693.35081)] and \textit{H. A. Levine} and \textit{P. Meier} [Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal. 109, No. 1, 73-80 (1990; Zbl 0702.35131)], the author finds a critical exponent \(p^{*}=p^{*}(m,d)\) such that if \(1<p\leq p^{*}\) then there exist no solutions to \((*)\) that are global in time, while if \(p>p^{*}\) then there exist both global and nonglobal solutions.